[Fwd: eclipse-3.6.2 failed on amd64 9]

[Andriy Gapon]

on 20/04/2012 18:07 Andriy Gapon said the following:
> on 20/04/2012 01:23 Andriy Gapon said the following:
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>> And, as you say, a test program that directly calls
>> java.util.TimeZone.getAvailableIDs also succeeds here.
>>
>> A workaround from this forum thread works for me:
>> http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=488654
>>
>> A wild guess: maybe the issue is caused by the custom class loading in
>> eclipse/osgi and static variables in sun.util.calendar.* classes are not
>> properly initialized before the classes are used.  The guess is based purely on
>> <clinit> for com.ibm.icu.impl.JavaTimeZone.
> 
> Hrm, more likely eclipse modifies a java security policy and it prohibits
> accessing files outside of certain directories.
> 

Seems like my first hunch was closer to the truth.
Here's a good investigation of the issue:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+bug/591165

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Andriy Gapon